Areas of Emphasis | PennDesign environmental sustainability and development training in site management requires knowledge of inventory documentation evaluation public policy finance communications and administration Such work is normally undertaken in both the public and private sectors by various planning historical and regulatory agencies including governmental and non governmental organizations and by foundations not for profit corporations developers and consulting firms Building Conservation Conservation encompasses the material documentation analysis conditions diagnosis testing monitoring and treatment of buildings and sites It is the technical means by which the whole spectrum of preservation interventions can be ultimately accomplished on a broad range of issues Work opportunities within this specialization include private and public institutions such as federal and state agencies and private practice such as architectural and technical consulting firms Preservation Planning No component of the historic environment can be beneficially preserved in isolation By providing for the establishment of essential continuities while defining strategies for change planning is a fundamental component of preservation just as preservation is a means to planning This entails expertise in policy law and economics as well as in history and physical planning Such work is normally undertaken in both the public and private sectors by various planning historical and regulatory agencies including governmental and non governmental organizations and by foundations not for profit corporations developers and consulting firms Landscape Preservation The preservation and management of cultural and historic landscapes require complex training in landscape history ethnography ecology regional planning and the materiality of the built and natural environment As the physical result of human interaction with the natural world cultural landscapes as common and designed places require preservation strategies that incorporate sensitive design with responsible conservation and management Preservation Design Increasingly many architectural problems require design professionals with special training in the creative and sensitive modification of existing structures and sites

Letter from the Chair of Landscape Architecture | PennDesign Landscape Architecture For over 50 years Penn has been the world s leading school of landscape architecture Previous Chairs Ian McHarg Anne Whiston Spirn John Dixon Hunt and James Corner have all radically expanded and refined landscape architecture s intellectual creative and professional scope Penn s alumni have fanned out across the globe and are leaders in the field This legacy has been instrumental in positioning landscape architecture globally as a profession on the ascendancy a profession that is now central to negotiating some of the 21st century s greatest challenges These challenges range from designing urban places that edify the human spirit to planning large scale territories that productively interweave ecological and infrastructural systems To be able to work effectively in this expansive field landscape architects require wide ranging creative and critical intelligence They require historical knowledge and depth They require technical precision and compelling representational skills Above all they require initiative and inspiration Because of its legacy because of its exceptional faculty and because of its genuine devotion to one on one studio based teaching Penn is able to offer an elite group of students these very qualities As you will see in the work of our current

Accreditation | PennDesign of the twentieth century Awarded to Cricket Day and Yu Han Chiu The Laurie D Olin Prize in Landscape Architecture Awarded to a graduating student who has achieved a high academic record and demonstrated design excellence in the making of urban places Laurie D Olin is one of the world s foremost leaders in contemporary landscape architecture and founder of the internationally acclaimed OLIN studio in Philadelphia designing some of the world s most significant urban public spaces Established in 2010 by the OLIN studio in honor of practice professor Olin who has served on Penn s faculty of landscape architecture since 1974 Awarded to Jackie Martinez The Faculty Medal in Landscape Architecture Awarded to a graduating student with an excellent academic record and outstanding contribution to the school in leadership Awarded to Emily van Geldern The John Dixon Hunt Prize in History Theory and Criticism Awarded to a graduating student who has shown particular distinction in the theoretical and critical understanding of landscape architecture Awarded to Katherine Rodgers The Eleanore T Widenmeyer Prize in Landscape and Urbanism Established in 2004 through a bequest by Eleanore T Widenmeyer in memory of her parents Arthur E Widenmeyer Sr and Lena R Widenmeyer is awarded to a graduating student who has achieved a high level of design synthesis between landscape and urbanism Awarded to Chieh Huang The Narendra Juneja Medal Awarded in memory of associate professor Narendra Juneja who served the department with distinction from 1965 1981 to a graduating student who has demonstrated deep exceptional commitment to ecological and social ideals in landscape architecture Awarded to Diego Bermúdez Obregón The Narendra Juneja Scholarship Awarded in memory of associate professor Narendra Juneja who served the department with distinction from 1965 1981 to a continuing student in landscape architecture for academic excellence and demonstrated need Awarded to Angelina Jones The George Madden Boughton Prize Established in 1986 by Jestena C Boughton in memory of her father George Madden Boughton Awarded to a graduating student in landscape architecture for design excellence with environmental and social consciousness and evidence of potential for future effective action in the field of landscape architecture Awarded to Muhan Cui The Robert M Hanna Prize in Design Awarded to a graduating student who has demonstrated great care for the craft making and construction of landscape architecture Established in 2010 by the OLIN studio in memory of Robert M Hanna 1935 2003 who served on Penn s faculty of landscape architecture from 1969 to 1998 Awarded to Ying Liu OLIN Work Fellowship A prize and a twelve week internship awarded to an outstanding Master of Landscape Architecture student entering the final year of his or her study Awarded to Nathaniel Wooten American Society of Landscape Architecture Awards Certificates of Honor and Merit awarded to graduating landscape architecture students who have demonstrated outstanding potential for contributions to the profession Certificates of Honor Cricket Day Chieh Huang and Jackie Martinez Certificates of Merit Muhan Cui Ying Liu and Katherine Rodgers Mr and Mrs William L Van Alen Traveling Fellowship Awarded to one landscape architecture student and one architecture student in the second year of their programs for summer travel to Europe Awarded to Nathaniel Wooten Wallace Roberts and Todd Fellowship Awarded to an outstanding landscape architecture student who has finished the second year of the three year program Awarded to Siying Xu Chair s Acknowledgement Award for Service This award inaugurated in 2013 acknowledges a single student or small group of students who have made an exceptional extracurricular contribution to the program Awarded to Emily Silber Chair s Acknowledgement Award for Design Progress This award inaugurated in 2013 is given to a first year student in the three year Master of Landscape Architecture program who has demonstrably advanced the furthest in their design capability across the course of their first year of study Awarded to Yiqing Wu 2014 Awards and Recognition Anneliza Carmalt Kaufer MLA 2014 was selected as Penn s 2014 Olmsted Scholar and was selected by the Landscape Architecture Foundation as one of the three 2014 National Olmsted Scholar Finalists MLA students Cricket Day Barrier Staten Island and Kate Rodgers Peripheral Multiplicity each received a Second Prize in the ONE PRIZE 2013 Stormproof Open International Design Competition for Building Resilient Cities for their projects from the spring 2013 LARP 502 Studio II Variable Energy Systems Infrastructure for Open Waters Joanna Karaman and Yadan Luo were finalists The studio was led by Ellen Neises and Nicholas Pevzner ONE PRIZE is an Annual Design and Science Award to Promote Green Design in Cities MLA students Chieh Huang Yadan Luo and Ying Liu along with team mates Max Hsu MArch and Hao Sun MCP received an Honorable Mention for their submission Nesting Music in the 2014 ULI Gerald D Hines Student Urban Design Competition Their faculty advisor was Lucinda Sanders The Hines Competition challenges multidisciplinary graduate student teams to devise a comprehensive development program for a real large scale site Teams of five students representing at least three disciplines have two weeks to develop solutions that include drawings site plans tables and market feasible financial data Their faculty advisor was Lucinda Sanders We missed including this in last year s publication MLA student Stefanie Loomis with MArch students Alex Holstein and Anna Ishii and MCP students Thomson Kao and Katrina Flora received an Honorable Mention for their submission Influx in the 2013 ULI Gerald D Hines Student Urban Design Competition Their faculty advisor was Nicholas Pevzner MLA students Diana Gruberg Claire Hoch Anneliza Kaufer Alyssa Olson and Anooshey Rahim were selected to represent PennDesign at an international workshop Landscape Accessibility in Milazzo Sicily from May 24 June 8 2014 Adjunct professor Valerio Morabito organized the workshop through the Universita Medierranea di Reggio Calabria The workshop looked at the multi ethnic cultural changes occurring in many European cities and sought to establish relationships between the central cities and their less developed surrounding areas by creating strategic landscape interventions to promote accessibility for all In July

History of Landscape Architecture at Penn | PennDesign also profited In 1965 a large grant from the Ford Foundation enabled McHarg to found a new Regional Planning program and to assemble a faculty in natural sciences meteorology geology soils science ecology and computer science In the early 1970s a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health permitted McHarg to add several anthropologists to the faculty and to integrate social sciences into the curriculum The integration of research and practice in community service has been a long standing tradition in the department from the 1970s when faculty and students produced an environmental plan for the town of Medford New Jersey and the Landscape Architecture Master Plan for the Penn campus While enrollment in landscape architecture remained stable during the 1970s with only modest increase enrollment in the regional planning program soared and shaped faculty tenure appointments all three tenure appointments from the late 70s to early 80s were natural and social scientists By 1985 however with changes in governmental policies and reduced funding for environmental programs the enrollment in regional planning collapsed to 2 3 students per year Meanwhile landscape architects on the faculty with the exception of Ian McHarg had reduced their teaching commitment to half time or less Yet the department has served as a laboratory and launching pad for new professional practices nationally prominent firms include WMRT now WRT and Collins DuTot now Delta Group in the 1960s Hanna Olin now the Olin Partnership in the 1970s Andropogon Associates in the 1970s and Coe Lee Robinson now CLRdesign inc in the 1980s In 1986 Anne Whiston Spirn was recruited to succeed McHarg as chair with the mandate of extending the department s legacy and renewing its commitment to landscape design and theory The task of the next eight years was to reshape the full time faculty in order to teach landscape architects now the vast majority of students in the department and to rebuild the regional planning program in collaboration with the Department of City and Regional Planning In the 1980s and 90s the department s tradition of community service has continued with the West Philadelphia Landscape Plan and Greening Project that has engaged faculty and students with neighborhood residents in planning and with the design and construction of local landscape improvements The 1990s was a period of growing deficits and shrinking financial resources in universities throughout the nation Penn s Graduate School of Fine Arts was no exception Despite these constraints the Department has continued to respond to the needs of landscape architecture education and practice Indeed since the late 1960s a central idea sustaining the curriculum has been process process in terms of design ecology and social ideas especially as these relate to the needs of the profession The addition over the past ten years of humanist and artistic perspectives to natural and social scientific emphases culminated in a major revision of the curriculum during 1993 94 In 1994 John Dixon Hunt was appointed professor and chair of the Department He continued the

PhD Architecture - Blog | PennDesign 15 19 in Chicago Read More Posted Mar 19 2015 1 25pm link PennDesign PhD Candidate Awarded Penny White Grant link Joseph Watson in collaboration with Mary Miller GSD MLA I AP candidate has been awarded a grant from the Harvard GSD Department of Landscape Architecture s Penny White Project Fund Read More Posted Feb 6 2015 9 54pm link PennDesign at the 9th Savannah Symposium link Joseph Watson will be representing the PennDesign PhD Program at the 9th Savannah Symposium this week The symposium s theme is The Architecture of Trade and it takes place February 5 7 at the Savannah College of Art and Design Read More Posted Jan 12 2015 6 26pm link Anna Weichsel Awarded Getty Library Research Grant link Architecture PhD Candidate Anna Weichsel has been awarded a 2015 Library Research Grant at the Getty Research Institute Read More Posted Nov 13 2014 2 31pm link PennDesign at the Industries of Architecture Conference link The PennDesign PhD Program in Architecture will have two representatives at the Industries of Architecture Conference this week The meeting the 11th Architectural Humanities Research Association International Conference takes place November 13 15 at the Newcastle University School of Architecture Landscape